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In the wilderness, Di Xin looked at the folds in front of him, wrote the approval without changing his face, and then put it on a pile of folds that had been corrected next to him.
Today's big merchants, although the technology brought by Di Xin from the other world has enabled the big merchants to achieve four modernizations ahead of schedule, but there are still many deficiencies in other aspects.
The law, education, and princes were all difficulties in front of Yin Shang.
"Your Majesty, the preliminary population count has been completed, and the human race currently has a population of about 30 million, of which the population of Yin Shang is 9.36 million, the four major princes are about 7 million, the remaining 600 princes have a total of 5 million, and the rest are all slaves, about 8 million. ”
Yin on the side read the results of the preliminary population count, which also has the credit of Jiang Ziya, it is thanks to the method he invented that the statistics can be completed so quickly.
With the emergence of various natural and man-made disasters, the number of human races has decreased somewhat, and even the eight hundred princes who used to be Yin Shang are now only six hundred.
Some of them were destroyed by some big demons, and the land was annexed by neighboring countries, and some of them were because "the prince and the prince will have a kind of Xiangning".
When Emperor Xin sowed the seeds called Sho Soul, and then spread the martial arts, these seeds also began to take root.
As the so-called holding a murder weapon and killing intentions, these people have obtained the inheritance of their souls, and they are already pretentious, and then they learned martial arts to boil their muscles and bones, and soon distanced themselves from ordinary people.
Although Yin Shang and the four major vassal states were recruiting them, there were still some people who would rather be the head of a chicken than a phoenix, or they could not leave their homeland, so they still stayed in their hometown.
Wise princes will naturally recruit them and promise heavy profits, but there are still some princes who are greedy and want to kill people and seize treasures, some succeed, and some naturally fail.
And those who fail, naturally, will be retaliated against.
Compared to the destruction of the vassal states in the demon calamity, more vassal states were destroyed by these people.
They killed the king, but they did not get the support of the nobles, and the people feared them, and the old vassal states were destroyed by them, and new vassal states could not be born, and even the surrounding vassal states were encroaching on their lands and people under the banner of revenge.
This is the reason why two hundred vassal states have fallen in this short period of time.
The chaos of the vassal states is put aside first, even if Di Xin is the king of the people, he can't meddle in this matter at will, after all, these vassal states have not yet fallen out to the point of public resentment, and the background of these vassal states is chasing the three emperors and five emperors, maybe whose ancestor is cultivating in the Huoyun Palace, Di Xin is not convenient to interfere.
Other than that, it's a slave business.
To be honest, seeing that the number of slaves actually accounted for a quarter of the entire population of Yin Shang, Di Xin was really shocked in his heart.
A quarter is equivalent to one slave for every three people, and considering that there are more than three people in a family, it can be said that almost everyone has slaves around them.
Even though Emperor Xin repeatedly passed laws and other measures to improve the treatment of slaves, the number of slaves was still huge.
One is the people displaced by the war and the demons, and the other are the descendants of slaves, who are naturally slaves in this era of blood inheritance.
There are even slaves whose parents, grandparents and grandparents are slaves, and the people who were demoted to slaves at the beginning were his wives and grandfathers.
Di Xin, who has received a modern education, naturally knows the shortcomings of the slavery system, so he has been preparing for institutional reform, and now that the demon clan is attracted by the Eastern Emperor Bell and the saints gather in the sea of blood, it is his opportunity to do it.
"Summoning Bigan, Shang Rong, Fei Zhong, and You Hun to come and discuss. ”
"No. ”
The palace people withdrew from the main hall and went to deliver the order.
A wisp of sandalwood wafted up, and in the main hall, several important ministers of Yin Shang came here, and most people had some guesses in their hearts.
After all, most of Yin Shang's decrees had to pass through their hands, and in the past, they had already sensed Di Xin's tendencies, and this time they summoned the ministers to come, and they should have to make a decision.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I want to introduce two people to you today. ”
Di Xin opened his mouth and said, and soon a palace person came to the top of the main hall with the two of them.
Shang Rong glanced at the two of them, his gaze swept over the slave marks on their faces, and asked, "Dare to ask the king, what are these two capable of?"
Di Xin pointed to the two and said: "This person's name is Liang, Liang was demoted to a slave because of the nobles who hurt people on the street, in order to save people, injured the nobles, and later joined the Demon Slayer Army, killed countless demons, and saved many people. ”
Liang Yiyan pulled away the sackcloth on his body, revealing the dense wounds on his body.
"The other man, named Tim, has been slaves since his grandfather's grandfather, and he dares to ask, what is the sin of the newborn son, and why are all the ancestors slaves?"
Di Xin's gaze looked at the ministers under his command, and their faces showed a look of thought.
"This is the ancestral system, the slaves, the prisoners of war, the criminals, the most vicious, if they are benevolent, where will the law of the soldiers be?"
Habitually, Shang Rong was the first to stand up against it, and what he said was indeed reasonable, and everyone couldn't help nodding.
The system of Yin Shang was the system of the people, and those who lived in the cities belonged to the people, and the villages everywhere belonged to the savages, and the savages were not protected by the law, and if there was a war, the first ones to go were savages.
If they offend the nobles, these savages will easily be turned into slaves by the nobles.
In addition, some of the slaves of Yin Shang were people who had made mistakes, and foreign races who were captive, even if they wanted to educate in this era, they had no ability, so they could only be used as slaves.
If slavery is abolished, the unlawless savages, and the alien races who have a blood feud with the Yin Shang will definitely revolt, as the Battle of Makino has proved.
Pin your hopes on these slaves, and the end result is definitely failure.
And the nobility would not allow the Emperor to do this, as it would weaken their power.
The promotion of outsiders before has affected the power of the nobles in the court, and fortunately, Di Xin is the king of people to suppress the dissatisfaction of these nobles, but if the slaves are moved now, these nobles are afraid that they will be separated from Di Xin, and the betrayal will not be, but don't think that they will work for Di Xin again.
If only some slaves were promoted and their slave status was abolished, then the nobles would not refuse, but if the entire slavery system was abolished, then no, even if it was the king of Emperor Xin, the nobles would have to express their non-violent non-cooperation.
Di Xin naturally knew this, and his brows furrowed slightly, but he quickly relaxed.
"Everything in the world, only change remains the same, now my big business is changing with each passing day, and there are all kinds of technology used, the Chinese people, savages have been difficult to govern the big business, and they want to establish new laws, implement new policies, and open a new dynasty!"